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Re: MTU mismatch on one link
From: Mike A <mikea () mikea ath cx>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 09:03:03 -0500
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 01:52:09PM +0000, Paul Vinciguerra wrote:
You need to raise your MTU above that on the other side and do a ping size sweep. Unlike at Layer-3 when you can use set a DF bit and get back an ICMP error, at Layer-2 when you exceed the far side's MTU, the packets are silently dropped.
In the past, I've found a binary search on ping size to be very efficient. YMMV, of course. -- Mike Andrews, W5EGO mikea () mikea ath cx Tired old sysadmin
Current thread:
- MTU mismatch on one link Tom Taylor (Aug 31)
- RE: MTU mismatch on one link Paul Vinciguerra (Aug 31)
- Re: MTU mismatch on one link Mike A (Aug 31)
- Re: MTU mismatch on one link Justin M. Streiner (Aug 31)
- RE: MTU mismatch on one link Blake Pfankuch (Aug 31)
- Re: MTU mismatch on one link Dan White (Aug 31)
- Re: MTU mismatch on one link Andrew K. (Aug 31)
- Re: MTU mismatch on one link Justin M. Streiner (Aug 31)
- Re: MTU mismatch on one link Ben Bartsch (Aug 31)
- Re: MTU mismatch on one link Tom Taylor (Aug 31)
- Re: MTU mismatch on one link Andrew K. (Aug 31)
- Re: MTU mismatch on one link Tom Taylor (Aug 31)
- Re: MTU mismatch on one link Scott Helms (Aug 31)
- RE: MTU mismatch on one link Paul Vinciguerra (Aug 31)
